CNN Says the Barcelona Attack May Have Been a Charlottesville Copycat

Just because the terrorists used the same sort of weapon to attack people doesn’t make the attack this morning in Barcelona a “copycat” of the neo-Nazi attacks in Charlottesville. Typically, when we’re talking about terror attacks, we consider a copycat to be someone who acted because they agreed with the original attackers’ ideology. So, in this case, the Barcelona attackers would need to be neo-Nazis in order to be true copiers. But CNN said this anyway. Why? Is it possible that the mainstream media went into overdrive upon hearing the Barcelona news that they needed to figure out a way to blame right-wingers instead of Syrian migrants or Islamic terrorists? Hmmmm…